Linspire pays the cost of Volish agreement
Submitted by srlinuxx on Mon, 07/02/2007 - 03:31.
LINUX DISTRIBUTOR Linspire has shown what it is costing it to sign a deal with Microsoft over patents.
This morning a press release winged its way from Linspire which said the outfit was "joining the current efforts to improve the ability of OpenOffice.org users to work with the Office Open XML format by increasing the interoperability between ODF and Open XML".
These efforts are being carried out by other Volish pact members Novell and Xandros who apparently want to create bi-directional open source translators for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations between ODF and Open XML.
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Interoperatability (SOA) cost from whom ? Expose' ?
Linspire got $20 million from Microsoft and many one page free licensing, they could have asked for more then?
Novell got $450 million and could have asked for more?
The people who are complaining got nothing?
Interoperatability even got Novell business that they can not get in before?
But Linspire did not ask for help to get more business ties with Microsoft? Robertson has not learned fast enough, still staying with free music only approach? Free(anything) and business venture, do they really get along together? If it is free, why should people pay? You can only get advertizing revenue if the product or service is free. Then the revenue depends on how many people received the free products and services?
Think SOA, and you have money potential? SAP($80 billion world wide revenue) also has to pay to protect themselves? Free software can deliberately have bugs galore or be perfected to knock off paid software?